Have you noticed yet that I'm getting excited about SSDS?
More information is trickling out about SSDS day by day. Yesterday there was a presentation on SSDS at MIX08 by Nigel Ellis which was more in-depth than anything I'd seen or heard before because it talks about the underlying architecture that will be supporting this. Take this typical architecture diagram for instance:
There's a plethora of useful information in the presentation so if you've got any interest at all in SSDS I recommend you go and take a look. I can't find a permalink to the video but just go to http://sessions.visitmix.com and search for "Introducing SQL Server Data Services" (they're in alphabetical order). UPDATE: Here's the permalink: http://visitmix.com/blogs/2008Sessions/BT05/
There is also a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ssds including an entry that tries to convince us that this is something different to Amazon SimpleDB.
-Jamie